Let me just start off by saying that the event was amazing and the organizers did an excellent job. This being my first tournament ever, it was definitely a great experience to get me started.

Alright, time for the report. My overall record on the first day of Swiss was 5-0-1 with a MOV of 930, leaving me as the top seed for top 16. My list was as follows:

Bossk w/ Engine Upgrade, Veteran Instincts, Dengar, 4-LOM, Outlaw Tech

Tel Trevura w/ Hull Upgrade, Title, Veteran Instincts, K4 Security Droid, Unhinged Astromech, Goitterstim

I was blown away that I was able to do so well. Here is a condensed breakdown of my matches, I might come back and expand them later.

Match 1: Brobots. I was pretty nervous. First game of the day of my first tournament. And it was against brobots. I started playing X-Wing with brobots though, so I had a good idea of how to handle them. I slow rolled with Bossk and Tel and let the bots come to me. First and second round of firing and both bots were at half, with Bossk only losing a shield. One EXTREMELY close call with a 3 turn on the edge from Bossk and a few maneuvers later and the bots were dead. 2 shields off Bossk the entire game. 100-0

Match 2: Palp Aces. Soontir and Carnor. The worst form of Aces for my list. Started off almost opposite of each other, didn't slow roll this time. The first few exchanges were sub par for me, Bossk getting chewed down pretty fast but not quite dying. A lucky round and I'm able to push a crit through on Carnor. The next round Soontir flies off the board and Carnor dies. Horrible loss for my opponent. Shuttle is easily taken care of at that point. 100-0

Match 3: A mirror match? Dengar and Bossk w/ Mindlink shenanigans. He slow rolls it with Bossk and I speed ahead. My objective here was to kill his imposter Bossk as quick as possible. Two rounds of fire is all his lizard got, and since he was lower PS, he didn't get to shoot back. Dengar took a little longer, and ended up killing Bossk and Tel once, but he went down sure enough. 100-72

March 4: Chewie, Wedge and a Z. Bossk did Bossk things and Chewie's ability didn't matter. Wedge had trouble finding arc and died fast. Lizard man died, but Tel was at full still. 100-46

Match 5: Featured Match! Scout, Slaver and a Crack-Krhaodhebxs. After striving so hard to get to the feature table, it was finally my time. And again, another (sorta) mirror match, his were just the little brothers to my name brand guys. I used the rule of 11 perfectly this match, just skirting out of the scout's and the slaver's range to kill the K-fighter first round of fighting, which was key. I'm now coming around the flank of the scout and Slaver. Kill the scout before it is able to get arc again and fire torps. Bossk goes down at some point. Then it is a dance between Tel and a Slaver. Slaver goes down handedly. 100-46

Match 5: ID for the early access to the burrito bar. We were both undefeated and I was top seed even after the draw.

Day 2

Top 16: Palp Aces, except this time it is Whisper and Inquistor. Wasn't SUPER worried here, but I knew I still needed to play as best I could. Was able to take initiative so I could kill the Whisper without worrying about the cloak, but his Inquistor was PS 10, so that was a pain. Some unlucky bumps and astroids locked Whisper into a crap spot, and it got blown up after shooting 2-3 times. Inquistor took a bit longer, but I got him after Bossk exploded. Then... I fly Tel over ALL the rocks and space junk. 3 damage from obstacles. Good thing it was just a Shuttle left, or I was in trouble. I will say, we rolled a total of 4 crits combined on debris, only he had a Palp to save him. 100-72

Quarter-Finals: Kanan w/ Ezra, Biggs. Crap. I was dreading this matchup. So much hull to eat through. So much dice coming at me. This was going to be hard. Right off the bat I make a dumb move by stopping Bossk just out of range of anything, because I thought he was gonna creep into range. Range 3 shots are better against Kanan than any other range. Bossk is then forced to brute his way into R-1 of Kanan. Some decent rolls on my end and Biggs thankfully dies without too much trouble, but Bossk with him, and there i s still a mostly healthy Kanan and Ezra bearing at me. Tel does Tel things and swoops around, dodging the occasional arc, then gets the PS 0 crit, which I used to my advantage. Got her to block here and there. But Kanan finally kills her and she goes full zombie on him and reverts back to PS 9 mid combat, thus letting her shoot before Ezra, unmodified, range 2, needing 2 hits to kill him, and manages 3 hits. If Ezra didn't die here that was the game. Some AMAZING few round of firing go off, with some help from a Chopper, and it is down to Tel and Kanan at 1 hull each. I shoot first and manage the win. 100-72

Semi-Finals: my opponent, unfortunately, conceded to me because he had to leave. Upsetting, but a guaranteed spot in the finals was nice.

Finals: Double Scouts and a Zuckass. This match was commentated on by Paul and Aaron, and he does a great job. You should really watch the Twitch stream. It was a fast game, the tides of the battle turning almost every round. Manage to kill a scout before it shoots a torp. Bossk gets blinded and Zuckass lives another day because of it. Bossk goes boom and Tel just can't manage to make it up. Looking at the stream again, I noticed I had a focus on Bossk when Zuckass scored the blinded pilot crit. Had I remembered atthe time I could have dodged a hit and the blinded pilot would have been a different crit. Oh well. Was a good game.

All in all, I had a great time. I did much better than expected, especially considering it was my first ever tournament. Met loads of awesome people and had many great games. Quite the weekend.

Well done, great result for first time out, and useful report. Thanks for sharing.

Congrats on your result. Especially since it is such a novel list. I'd be interested in knowing the loadout on the brobots you faced in your first match. Only two shields off a 1 agi ship from brobots seems extreme. I'm plannnig on running bots with FCS and heavy laser and I'd have to roll some pretty bad dice or suboptimal manouvering to not get more hits in than that.

The load out was B w/ FCS, HLC, Thrusters, Title and C w/ Adv. Sensors, PTL, HLC, Thrusters, Title.

The biggest thing was Bossk bumped one of them as often as he could, and when he wasn't bumping he was dodging with EU. My opponent didn't Sloop enough and there was a round or two that he didn't get shots in. Bossk with 4-LOM helped a lot here, negating the evade they always had from C's effect.

Help me understand this one as I fly Tel as well but have a different view on things.

"But Kanan finally kills her and she goes full zombie on him and reverts back to PS 9 mid combat, thus letting her shoot before Ezra"

I was under the impression that once a PS step has been passed in combat you dont ever go back to it. So a PS0 Tel dying and loosing all crits would go back to PS 9 and no longer have the chance to fire since it was already past his activation window.
*Edit*
This is why I think the way I do. Not saying Im correct, just hoping for clarification.

COMBAT PHASE

During the Combat phase, each ship has an opportunity

to perform one attack, starting with the ship with the

highest pilot skill and continuing in descending order

You may or may not be right, as the rule is very... strange... and hardly ever comes up. I don't have the exact wording, but there was a discussion about something similar on the main forums a while ago, and they argued something along the lines of "the next ship that has not activated this combat and has the highest pilot skill activates." That might not be the exact wording, but you get the idea.

I think most people envision the activation and combat rounds as ascending and descending the PS ladder, but I think it is more fluid than that.

I'm not a judge or master of the rules, so don't take my word for it. That's just how we settled it during our game. A judge was at our table the entire time too, and he didn't speak out at that moment.